Places to visit for an urban planning geek, eat and shop.

Hi there,

I am in Surat on a project to study sitilink from Hyderabad, Telangana, India. I am very interested in city planning, urban design and building infrastructure and also trying local food.

I loved the BRTS you have here and I haven't seen anything like it so far in India.

Does anyone have recommendations for places which are of these kind? like severage treatment plants, transit control rooms, Muncipal control centres etc? Anything which you think Surat does better than other cities would be my place of interest.

I want to go and have a look.

I had food at Jani's, Kishore falooda, Kathiyawadi thali, Ponkh wada etc so far.

What are those which I can only get in Surat and can't miss to eat?

I also want to buy a gift for my wife, can someone recommend me a nice surti gift please?

Many thanks.